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President Barack Obama meets with Saudi King Abdullah at Rawdat Khuraim, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Rawdat Khuraim is a green oasis located 62 miles northwest of the capital city of Riyadh and King Abdullah's private desert encampment is located within Rawdat Khuraim. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The federal government will recognize
gay marriages in Michigan that occurred between recent conflicting court
rulings, Attorney General Eric Holder announced today. (CNN News)

Washington officials today pleaded for
patience from a heartbroken public as they continued work to identify the dead
from the mudslide that officially killed 17 when it tore through the rural town
of Oso. (Los
Angeles Times)

The California state
Senate voted to suspend three Democratic lawmakers today who have been the
subject of criminal probes, including Leland Yee, who was arrested this week in
an FBI sweep on corruption and gun trafficking charges. (Reuters)

Hundreds of people have honored two
fallen firefighters in a solemn ceremony at Boston's City Hall Plaza. (Associated
Press)

Chris Christie, the larger-than-life
governor of New Jersey and former Republican frontrunner for 2016, has been
accused of trying to apply "a million-dollar coat of whitewash" to the bridge
closure scandal that threatened to end his presidential ambitions. (The
Telegraph)

The Obama administration today
announced a new initiative to cut methane emissions, as part of its efforts to
go around Congress to combat climate change. (Time.com)

A deaf Houston couple is upset about a
note an American Airlines employee attached to one of their bags, referring to
the couple as "deaf and dumb." (Associated
Press)

Less
than nine months after she shoved her husband off a steep cliff just days into
their marriage, Montana newlywed Jordan Linn Graham was sentenced
to 30 years in prison Thursday. (CNN
News)

The FBI is searching for the person who
injured a Delta Airlines pilot when the plane's cockpit was illuminated by a
laser beam as the airliner was landing at a New York airport. (Fox
News)

International news:

President Obama
reiterated the significance the United States places on its "strong
relationship" with Saudi Arabia in talks with King Abdullah today. (Reuters)

Both Kiev and Washington say Russian
forces are massing in large numbers near Ukraine's eastern border -- and that
they represent a threat to Ukraine and potentially to other former Soviet
states. (CNN
News)

Hundreds of supporters of ousted
Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi took to the streets today to protest the
decision by the country's former military chief to run in upcoming presidential
elections, sparking scattered clashes that claimed the lives of a journalist
and two other people. (Associated
Press)

A police officer was wounded and a
shooter was killed during an exchange of gunfire at a Toronto-area courthouse
today (Bloomberg
News)

Taliban militants attacked the residence of an
American charity and a nearby day care center in Kabul today, sparking a
three-hour gun battle that unfolded as foreigners, including women and
children, fled the scene. (Associated
Press)

The White House today lauded the
selection of former Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as the next NATO
Secretary General. (USA
Today)

A man who has been dead for nearly 800
years could be the catalyst that draws Turkey into Syria's bloody civil war. (Fox
News)

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